I recently helped a friend recover (and translate to Word and WP) some ancient Wordstar files from 5.25 inch floppies from his old Kaypro computer; chapters of a book he wrote almost 20 years ago; thankfully he didn't wait too long (I found some shareware on the 'net that did the trick, as well as having kept an old 5.25 drive around at home that I was able to temporarily put in my PC). Even optical drives don't last long; those CD's you burn today may only last you a dozen years or so, depending on the quality of the medium. I guess what I'm getting at is, if you have digital stuff that you want to preserve well into the future, it's kinda like food storage; you have to bring it up to date every so often, especially before it "expires" completely, or is no longer cost effective to do so. Rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com